It's not because she's a woman, in spite of the reverse-sexist nonsense being put out by the MSM. I would be perfectly content to vote for a woman for president--just not that one. I don't see her as being Bush-Cheney Lite, continuing the BA's freedom-to-fascism agenda. I see it the other way around: that the current Administration is carrying on that agenda as it was laid down by the previous (Clinton) Administration. Remember that she is the wife of (and some say, the REAL vice president to) the man who allowed--and must therefore bear ultimate responsibility for--the first true assault on our First Amendment rights and the second attack on our Second Amendments rights (remember Ruby Ridge, the year before?) in modern history. The term "domestic terrorist" had not come into common usage then, but if it had, I am sure that the Clintons would have used it to describe the 74 men, women and children besieged by agents of the ATF, and subsequently murdered by the FBI on April 19, 1993 at Waco, Texas. And if the Bush Administration uses and abuses the media to support its fascist policies and its assaults on our Constitutional rights by controlling the flow of information, they learned it from the Clintons--new accounts of the people and events at Mt. Carmel, both before and after the siege, were so slanted and inaccurate as to be laughable, if it weren't so horribly tragic. And if you watch the film Waco: Rules of Engagement (or any of the other films made by people interested in the truth of what really happened), you will see that the subsequent Senate "investigation" was every bit as much a whitewash as that of the 9/11 Commission.
But in order to really understand the scope of the tragedy, we have to remember that it happened in TEXAS--and when they say that Texas is like a whole 'nother country, I have to say, having been there for a while, they're right. Let's look at WHY the government felt it had to get involved in the first place: charges of sexual abuse and stockpiling of weapons and converting them into illegal automatic weapons.
As far as I can figure out, what David Koresh was doing "marrying" and having children by girls as young as 14 years old might have been immoral, might have been disgusting to most of us, but it was NOT ILLEGAL in Texas, as long as he had the girls' parents' permission (at most, he would have been guilty of bigamy.), and even if it was illegal, the agency with the proper jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute those crimes would have been local, not federal. But when the Sheriff's office and Child Services investigated the charges of abuse, they found nothing they could prosecute. That, however, didn't stop the ATF from using those charges (which were outside the scope of their agency, by the way) to justify their involvement and subsequent actions.
The charges that the Branch Davidians were stockpiling weapons was ludicrous on its face--we're talking about TEXAS, were gun ownership is almost a rite of passage--and that they were converting legal semi-automatic into illegal fully automatic weapons--which they could not "prove" until after the slaughter. The fact is that anyone who makes their living by trading in weapons tends to "stockpile" them, and having the PARTS to make a semi-automatic into a fully-automatic doesn't mean that anyone is actually doing it.
Then there is the fact that the agents LIED to the Senate committee investigators--claiming that they never fired one single shot at the Davidians, in spite of video footage shows them doing just that. (Tip to future fascist dictators and your minions: when you carry out illegal activities, if you don't want your illegalities revealed for what they are--don't make tapes of them. Sooner or later someone will find them and make them public!!!)
There is so much more I could go into, but I don't have the time or the space. Besides, the information is easy enough to find for anyone who cares to look. Suffice it to say that the reason I won't vote for Hillary Clinton is because I don't want to see anyone else dying for insisting on exercising their Constitutional rights just because those rights are inconvenient to the government, and having been--even indirectly--responsible for it once, I don't see how we can trust the Clintons not do it again.
Like I said, I would have no problem voting for a woman president--in fact, I think we NEED a woman president to stop the madness running through our government now. I just can't stomach this one.
But in order to really understand the scope of the tragedy, we have to remember that it happened in TEXAS--and when they say that Texas is like a whole 'nother country, I have to say, having been there for a while, they're right. Let's look at WHY the government felt it had to get involved in the first place: charges of sexual abuse and stockpiling of weapons and converting them into illegal automatic weapons.
As far as I can figure out, what David Koresh was doing "marrying" and having children by girls as young as 14 years old might have been immoral, might have been disgusting to most of us, but it was NOT ILLEGAL in Texas, as long as he had the girls' parents' permission (at most, he would have been guilty of bigamy.), and even if it was illegal, the agency with the proper jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute those crimes would have been local, not federal. But when the Sheriff's office and Child Services investigated the charges of abuse, they found nothing they could prosecute. That, however, didn't stop the ATF from using those charges (which were outside the scope of their agency, by the way) to justify their involvement and subsequent actions.
The charges that the Branch Davidians were stockpiling weapons was ludicrous on its face--we're talking about TEXAS, were gun ownership is almost a rite of passage--and that they were converting legal semi-automatic into illegal fully automatic weapons--which they could not "prove" until after the slaughter. The fact is that anyone who makes their living by trading in weapons tends to "stockpile" them, and having the PARTS to make a semi-automatic into a fully-automatic doesn't mean that anyone is actually doing it.
Then there is the fact that the agents LIED to the Senate committee investigators--claiming that they never fired one single shot at the Davidians, in spite of video footage shows them doing just that. (Tip to future fascist dictators and your minions: when you carry out illegal activities, if you don't want your illegalities revealed for what they are--don't make tapes of them. Sooner or later someone will find them and make them public!!!)
There is so much more I could go into, but I don't have the time or the space. Besides, the information is easy enough to find for anyone who cares to look. Suffice it to say that the reason I won't vote for Hillary Clinton is because I don't want to see anyone else dying for insisting on exercising their Constitutional rights just because those rights are inconvenient to the government, and having been--even indirectly--responsible for it once, I don't see how we can trust the Clintons not do it again.
Like I said, I would have no problem voting for a woman president--in fact, I think we NEED a woman president to stop the madness running through our government now. I just can't stomach this one.
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